There is no point for Sarawak PKR to call on the GHB (the progressive group of PAS leaders who are contemplating forming a new party) to drop the hudud agenda on the one hand and yet maintaining its ties with the present PAS which has hudud agenda as its primary objective.
It is long overdue for Sarawak PKR to make a decision whether to sever its ties with Sarawak PAS because of the latter’s hudud agenda and the leadership of Hadi.
Hadi Awang has made it clear that hudud is the main agenda of PAS under his leadership. The current leadership of Sarawak PAS is aligned to Hadi and thus his hudud agenda.
When even many of the progressive PAS members and leaders are now losing hope on Haid’s leadership and trying to form a new party, it is incomprehensible that Sarawak PKR is still clinching on to Sarawak PAS.
Is it mere indecisiveness or the lack of power on the part of Sarawak PKR to make a decision?
It has always been said by our late Chairman Karpal Singh, “there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics, but permanent principles.” The fundamental and permanent principle in this matter is that Malaysia is a secular state and that hudud law shall not be implemented in Malaysia.
If one were to truly believe in secularism in Malaysia, then given the current position of PAS under Hadi, it is impossible to work together with PAS.
Baru Bian may have spoken against hudud, however, the PKR’s continued association with PAS speaks otherwise.
Just one simple question, come elections, will PKR help PAS to campaign, knowing that PAS under Hadi’s leadership will continue to pursue its hudud agenda and that the more elected representatives it has, the stronger will its push for the implementation of hudud in Malaysia? If the answer is “yes”, then PKR will be compromising our secularism, if the answer is “no”, then why the continued association?
Given the fact that the GHB is the progressive faction of PAS, now leaving the Hadi’s PAS and forming a new party, PKR’s stand in maintaining relationship with the current conservative PAS while hoping to work together the GHB after the latter forms a new party is a very opportunistic approach to politics.
Ultimately, you can’t have the cake and eat it.